Rift Valley

In order of specificity, Rift Valley can refer to:

  • Rift valley in general
  • Great Rift Valley (geographical concept), a series of connected rifts from Madagascar to Syria
  • East African Rift, a system of rifts in East Africa
  • Albertine Rift, the western branch of the East African Rift
  • Great Rift Valley, Kenya, part of the eastern branch of the East African Rift
  • Great Rift Valley, Ethiopia, part of the eastern branch of the East African Rift
  • Rift Valley fever
  • Rift Valley Province, Kenya and border with Uganda

Famous quotes containing the word valley:

    “How old the world is! I walk between two eternities.... What is my fleeting existence in comparison with that decaying rock, that valley digging its channel ever deeper, that forest that is tottering and those great masses above my head about to fall? I see the marble of tombs crumbling into dust; and yet I don’t want to die!”
    —Denis Diderot (1713–1784)